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:welcomeWelcome to Florida Debbie.......You dudes in North Florida...better check your lakes this week...I think they will be filling up!!! We have had a mess of rain here and more to come for the next two days. It's gonna be good fishing this fall!:fish
Rain, good to hear. Harris chain up any?
Send what you dont need up my way!:)
It has to be! We've had well over two inches and more to come. Seems Debbie is sitting still and dumping PLENTY of rain on Florida. The St. Johns River is in good shape and so are the connecting lakes. Lake Apopka will finally be flowing north and the Harris chain will be rising soon. Shu will probably post how much pretty soon. He keeps an eye on the water levels over there. You'll be able to get in your boat house with your yacht before you know it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Slab
From the shores of Little Lake Harris:Quote:
Originally Posted by Slab
Since the start of the storm, my rain gauge has recorded OVER 7 inches of rain.
If the St. Johns Water Management doesn't release all of the water thru the Haynes Creek canal at once, the lake levels should come up dramatically. I haven't got to the fishing dock to see the change of water level, but when I do I will report.
Will be interesting to hear from SHU.
flycaster
Rain is good. BUT. We might not have a shrimp run like we did last year. :(
With all this rain, the fish will have more water to hide in.......May need the likes of Rawhide, Hooker, TnT, No Mercy, and Chuckauten to come help you find them......
am waiting with interest the update to 'the lake water atlas at the Lake County Water Authority, shows water level on 6/21/2012 at 60.04 ft and a historic norm of 61.31 ft. Have had over 6" of rain so far and the lake behind our home is sure looking better. Should be about 2 days for an update.--shu
Glad to see yall getting some rain out of Debbie...Looks like we aren't going to be that lucky up here on this go around..:(
My appoligies to the rain Gods....I misspelled DEBBY.... who knew the weather guessers would use a crazy spelling. That's like spelling ...TandT....or Shewrock...or fliecaster....65GMC...ya'll get the idea!Rofl
Mikie
The rain is very welcome & needed over here but we ain't getting much.:dono
I see that the area around Lochloosa Lake got 10" of rain yesterday/last night. With the rains from the last tropical storm and more from Debbie it should help fill it up. I was at Lochloosa in Feb and it broke my heart to see how low the lake was. Thank you Lord for all the rain we have had and all we will be getting, Amen.
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Went to the dock this afternoon and set my GPS on the deck to see what the elevation was. The GPS indicated that it was at 52 feet. Measured to the water surface below the dock and there was a differential of 3 feet. This would indicate that the lake level was 49 feet above sea level. I don't know how accurate this reading is, but it is all that I can offer.
If they don't open the locks south end of Kissimmee, maybe we can finally have some
water as it is about 3 ft low plus as of Saturday afternoon prior to storm comming
in. Hope the people running the locks at West Toho finally get the message that they
should have partially open locks month or so ago to give rest of us some water instead
of hording it for the expensive home owners there.
it will be great to see the lakes come back up. santa fe is still 5 feet low
Clermont chain up 6-8 inches. Still very much short of the 2 feet needed to bring levels back to their normal low water line. Business wise it is Slamming............ 50 wet structures in the first hour of business. Everyone now loves the restoration guys :)
Hey Shu! now that the water is flowing back into Harris, maybe we can put in a request for some darn fish in that chain :(
HEY DEBBIE..... DONT STOP NOW YOU WUSS.........RAIN, RAIN, RAIN....................... still cant get into my favorite lake darnit.
Still waiting for an update on Lake Harris, so went to Venetian Gardens ramp, water is up some but not as much as i'd hoped, went to Herlong Park(train) the marks on the floatin ramp show about 12" of rise but still about 15" down. Checked the Palatlakaha at Pear Park to see if the water is flowing, it's not but there is some standing water in it. Singletary Park(pier) doesn't look any different (still low) Didn't see any lake level (ft above sea level markers) so will wait for the Lake County Water Authority to updeate the water atlas, found out yesterday it's based on the 1988 bench mark and not the 1929 one.?????????? All in all we need some more water.--shu
Really good report shu.........
thank you.........
Water Atlas finally updated with info from 6-25-2012 level showed to be 60.56' which is .26' above historic norm. I still think the level is down a foot or more from where i'm used to seeing it. The ramps all still have visable 'rub rails' that were added after the levels started to recede. Will keep an eye on level, may come up some more(needs to imo).--shu
6/28/12 level=60.65', historic norm is up a little over that at 61.28', looks normal to have fluctuations of a foot or more in a few days.--shu